Gets another one in Clay Matthews

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HAT’S OFF: Patriots left tackle Matt Light makes an adjustment to his helmet during practice yesterday in Foxboro.

FOXBORO — Each week, the threats to Tom Brady have come.

James Harrison and LaMarr Woodley from Pittsburgh. Dwight Freeney and Robert Mathis from Indianapolis. Ndamukong Suh and Kyle Vanden Bosch from Detroit. Julius Peppers and Israel Idonije from Chicago.

Each week, they’ve been neutralized.

Sure, Brady’s been taken down a few times, and roughed up here and there. In Detroit, he was hit pretty hard in the first half. But for the most part, the Patriots offensive line has done a tremendous job keeping the quarterback upright and out of harm’s way.

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